[meteorite-list] Impact Cheverons ??? was More holocene start impact memories - perhaps

[Paul]

Mr. Grodine wrote:

“There are other (possible) Native American 
memories of the ice age impacts which I 
was not familiar with. The following comes 
from Adrienne Mayor:

http://members.aol.com/afmayor/myhomepage/writing.html”

Oral tradition is certainly a source of information about possible 
prehistoric catastrophes as discussed in numerous publications.
However, the lack of specific chronological information and the
utter vagueness of them makes it possible to use any of them 
to support the catastrophe of choice for almost any point in time 
within the Late Pleistocene, Early Holocene, Middle Holocene, 
and Late Holocene. For example, Dr. Masse is using many of 
the same oral traditions and folklorethat Mr. Grodine uses, as 
evidence of an 6807 BP impact in the Indian Ocean. For 
example go see Ancient Crash, Epic Wave, by Sandra 
Blakeseed in the November 14, 2006, New York Times at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html?ei=5090&en=35b395ffd080eb47&ex=1321160400&pagewanted=all

This article stated:

“Dr. Masse analyzed 175 flood myths from around 
the world, and tried to relate them to known and 
accurately dated natural events like solar eclipses 
and volcanic eruptions. Among other evidence, 
he said, 14 flood myths specifically mention a 
full solar eclipse, which could have been the one 
that occurred in May 2807 B.C.”

At least they have testable and credible physical evidence, i.e. 
the Fenambosy chevron in Madagascar, that something really
nasty might have happened as noted in “WAPMERR funded 
International Tsunami Expedition to Southern Madagascar - 
August 29 – September 13, 2006” at;

http://wapmerr.org/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2 . Also, there are
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/users/menke/slides/madagascar06/report.pdf
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/news-archive/dyk_0004.html
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenambosy_Chevron

They also back up their interpretations with what they theorize
to be an actual crater, as detailed in May 7th, 2005--New 
Revelations about Impact Crater at:

http://www.earth2class.org/k12/w9_s2005/scioverview.html

The web page stated:

“This year, she will describe work she and 
colleagues have done in the central Indian 
Ocean. Below is an abstract about this 
research from a recent scientific conference. 
Burckle Abyssal Impact Crater: Did this 
Impact Produce a Global Deluge? 
Dallas H. 
Abbott1, W. Bruce Masse3, Dee Breger2, 
and Lloyd Burckle1 
1 Lamont Doherty Earth 
Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, 
NY 10964 
2 Los Alamos National Laboratory, 
Los Alamos, NM 87545n
3 Drexel University, 
Philadelphia, PA”

They are claiming that their crater is the “Deluge Crater”. The 
claims to have found either the “Deluge impact” or the source of 
Deluge stories are just as numerous as the number of claims of 
people having found Atlantis. :-) :-) Evidence of infinitely 
malleable nature of oral traditions and how they can be selectively
interpreted to “fit” theory of choice being advocated is seen in 
how various oral traditions are argued to be iron-clad proof of
mutually exclusive events, including anything from the 
catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea to a “Deluge” caused by 
either supernatural forces or divine intervention.

Best Regards,

Paul H.




       
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